What does "meta" mean?

Contribution to the M2D List of FUQs

Augustus closing the Temple of Janus, by Louis de Silvestre, 1757, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden © akg-images

After reading Meta: Beyond, Behind and Between Everything, I'd like to add a frequently unasked question to the M2D List of FUQs.

Meta: Beyond, Behind, and Between Everything

The simplest way to state the question is:

What does “meta” mean?

The post by Jen Hitze offers an excellent deep dive. I’d love to read an M2D response to this FUQ and to this quote:

“Today, humans live a dual existence in the digital and physical worlds. Could it be that there are even more worlds we have yet to discover?”